Cycle + Commuter = Cycluter

Shakespeare was fond of inventing words. According to a posting by library weekly [http://shakespeare.about.com/library/weekly/aa042400a.htm] Shakespeare "invented over 1700 of our common words by changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives, connecting words never before used together, adding prefixes and suffixes, and devising words wholly original."

Some of those words include compromise, dwindle and frugal, to name a few.

Following in Shakespeare's footsteps, Bill Wooley, aka Wordsmith 1953, a former journalist and devoted bike commuter, and regular contributor to Bay State Cycluters, invented the term "cycluter" to condense and elevate the term "bicycle commuter."

To ensure adoption of a new word, people and the media must start using it. Cycluter rolls off your tongue. Cycluter must be seen online and in print, and heard to be adopted. One person , one group, one website can fuel a movement.

Cycluting is rolling on its way. A journalist, Nan Shnitzler, wrote a story about bike commuting and editors headlined it with her recommendation, "They Call It Cycluting."
http://www.wickedlocal.com/bolton/news/lifestyle/x1213268204/They-call-it-cycluting

The MetroWest/495 TMA website is using cycluting to describe bike commuting.

Cycluter. You heard it here first. Now spread the word.

--Not your typical cycluter